Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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When most people think about Transylvania it conjures the image of Dracula and the world dreamed up in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel - a world of gothic castles, shapeshifting bats, and vampires. Some people even think of Transylvania as a mythical place like that of Middle-Earth or Narnia, only much creepier. But Transylvania is a real place in what is now modern Romania, in Western Europe, and Dracula was a real person known to the world as Vlad III or Vlad Tepes, meaning the Impaler. Welcome to Medieval Madness.

0:00 Introduction
0:45 A Traumatic Childhood
3:12 A Show of Power
5:22 The Art of Impalement
7:13 The Blood Thirsty Tyrant
8:17 Hero and Villain

Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions

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